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School: Faughalstown (roll number 9622)

Location:
Faughalstown, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 635

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  1. Festival Customs - Shrove and Shrove Tuesday (continued)

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    on Shrove Tuesday is a very common custom here in Ireland. Rings and nuts are put in the pan-cakes when being made. Who ever gets the ring is supposed to be the first to get married. Who ever gets the nuts is supposed to be an old maid. It was a custom long ago for the boys to tie ash-bags on the ladies' backs who did not get married before Lent.
    Another custom was that any boy or girl who were no married before Lent were tied with chains and put on a slide and dragged through the town.

    Josephine Flanagan
    Whitehall,
    Castlepollard.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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